Police in Missouri say a man accused of stealing a ring coughed up the evidence while officers were questioning him. Pictures of the two-carat diamond ring worth about $20,000 were sent to jewelers in the Joplin area after it was reported stolen when someone took the owner's purse from her car on Thursday.

The Joplin Globe reported that the owner of Newton's Jewelry recognized the ring when a man and woman came to his store a few hours after the theft and said they wanted to sell it. L.T. Newton and his staff stalled them and called police.

Police said the man swallowed the ring when officers arrived. While being questioned, he began to cough uncontrollably and eventually coughed up the ring.

The man and woman are charged with receiving stolen property.

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Information from: The Joplin Globe, http://www.joplinglobe.com

Two men from Japan have been arrested for allegedly smuggling more than 50 live turtles and tortoises into the United States.

The U.S. attorney's office said Monday that Atsushi Yamagami and Norihide Ushirozako (USHEE'-row-za-ko), both of Osaka, were arrested Friday at Los Angeles International Airport. Both men were charged with one count each of illegally importing wildlife and one count of violating the Endangered Species Act.

If convicted, they both face up to 21 years in prison. They are scheduled to be arraigned January 31.

Federal prosecutors say the turtles and tortoises were hidden in snack food boxes found in a suitcase.

The arrests were tied to an undercover investigation that began last year into a smuggling operation that brought turtles into the United States.

A growing number of the people whose homes are in foreclosure are refusing to slink away in shame. They are fashioning a sort of homemade mortgage modification, one that brings their payments all the way down to zero. They use the money they save to get back on their feet or just get by.

This type of modification does not beg for a lender's permission but is delivered as an ultimatum: Force me out if you can. Any moral qualms are overshadowed by a conviction that the banks created the crisis by snookering homeowners with loans that got them in over their heads.

"I tried to explain my situation to the lender, but they wouldn't help," said Mr. Pemberton's mother, Wendy Pemberton, herself in foreclosure on a small house a few blocks away from her son's. She stopped paying her mortgage two years ago after a bout with lung cancer. "They're all crooks."

Foreclosure procedures have been initiated against 1.7 million of the nation's households. The pace of resolving these problem loans is slow and getting slower because of legal challenges, foreclosure moratoriums, government pressure to offer modifications and the inability of the lenders to cope with so many souring mortgages.

1 A Minnesota Trial Court's decision holding the Federal Reserve Act unconstitutional and VOID;
2 holding the National Banking Act unconstitutional and VOID;
3 declaring a mortgage acquired by the First National Bank of Montgomery, Minnesota in the regular course of its business, along with the foreclosure and the sheriff's sale, to be VOID.

And in the judge's personal memorandum he recalled that "the Plaintiff (banks president) admitted that in combination with the Federal Reserve Bank did create the money and credits upon its books by bookkeeping entry. The money and credit first came into existence when they created it. Mr Morgan admitted that no US Law or Statute existed which gave him the right to do this. A lawful consideration must exist and be tendered to support the Note. The Jury found that there was no lawful consideration and I agree." He also poetically added: "Only God can create something of value out of nothing."

Being that many neighborhoodwatch programs are organized and sometimes incorporated/licensed for armed patrol,it seems if the proper legal action is taken in court in the form of "produce the Note" and the remedy of "Consideration" ,these groups and neighbors,along with the legal assistance/support of the Homeowners Association provide a legal and militant barrier to physical eviction of their neighbors and friends.

A meeting should be set up for the whole neighborhood and an evaluation /assessment of those in danger of foreclosure be initiated identifying those at most risk of immediate eviction so a welcoming commitee will be present for the arrival of the Sheriff. The Sheriff ,at this time will be Constitutionalized.

An umbrella organization of these Neighborhood Watches/Home Owner Assoc. would provide a legal,peacefully assembled group intent of creating a barrier to admittance for taking possession and control of said property.

A real obstacle/deterent would have to be organized ,involving over 125 encamped "friends" on said property.A "sit in",to say ,for example.

It looks like the downfall of the Bank Monopoly and it's cousins,Mr Mortgage,credit and Finance by their own treachery.
The homes are legally yours by default and fraud on part of the Lenders. The Fed.

Keep them legally,ethically and morally. As should have been from the beginning.

Don't let the obscene image of an officer of the law defiling your home.With the intent of drawing his weapon.To shed your blood, if necessary ,in the act of throwing you from your home(as captured in photo ) be repeated with your home.

Sources:http://www.wanderingsandmusings.com/2008/10/zeitgeist-addendum-transcript/

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2367947/Illuminati-Cash-Slush-Fund-Estimated-at-65-Trillion-Dollars

THE CREDIT RIVER DECISION

http://www.jail4judges.org/JNJ_Library/2005/2005-02-02B.html

Police said a man charged with robbing someone outside a Pittsburgh-area Subway restaurant left a pretty detailed calling card: a job application he filled out just before the heist. Police in Homestead have yet to release the name of the suspect charged in the robbery about 5 p.m. Sunday in Homestead.

Police said the man applied for a job in the sandwich shop moments before he committed an armed robbery outside the store. Police did not immediately specify who was robbed, or what the suspect allegedly stole.

Calls to the Homestead police department just east of Pittsburgh have not been returned.

Police used the application information to locate the suspect's mother who told them he was heading to Pittsburgh on a bus, where he was arrested.

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Information from: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, http://pghtrib.com

Document details al Qaida training; psychiatrist calls him 'full of rage'

Police say a young Florida woman once known for unstoppable hiccups was living a transient life before she was charged this week with murder.

Investigator Mike Kovacsev (koh-VAH-sev) from the St. Petersburg police told NBC's "Today" show Tuesday that 19-year-old Jennifer Mee had been living in a series of motels and apartments. Mee was thrust into brief fame as a teenager in 2007 by uncontrollable hiccups that drew national media attention.

Mee and two men were charged Sunday with first-degree murder in the death of a 22-year-old man. Mee allegedly lured the man to a meeting Saturday, where he was robbed and shot.

Mee's constant hiccups stopped on their own after five weeks. Her mother told Tampa radio station WFLZ on Monday that Mee had not lived with her in a year.

A California woman who befriended a homeless woman and let her sleep in her car told police she didn't know where to turn when the woman unexpectedly died — so she drove the body around for months along with a box of baking soda to hide the smell, authorities said Thursday.

Officers with the Costa Mesa police found the unidentified body Monday after getting a call about a car partially blocking a driveway, Sgt. Ed Everett told The Associated Press. When officers arrived, they noticed a stench and saw a leg poking out from a blanket and some clothes, he said.

The partially mummified remains consisted of mostly skin and bones and weighed about 30 pounds, he said.

An autopsy showed no signs of foul play but police are still investigating the role of the car's driver.

The woman driving the car told police she met a homeless woman in a park in nearby Fountain Valley and told her she could sleep in her car, Everett said. But when the woman died in her car 10 months ago, she was afraid to go to the police, he said.

The woman who drives the car, a 57-year-old who herself had fallen on hard times and was living with friends, told officers she had last seen the woman alive in December. It wasn't clear when she discovered the body in the car, he said.

"She felt she would be accused of something and with everything going on in her life, she didn't want to deal with that," Everett said.

Police also found a box of baking soda in the car, which the driver had used to try to cover up the smell, Everett said.

The dead woman is believed to be in her 50s or 60s, with a first name of Signe.

An Ohio judge allowed a pregnant 17-year-old to get married without her parents' consent after the bride-to-be said she could be forced to have an abortion if she stayed at home.

The Columbus Dispatch reports the couple, who each turn 18 in a few months, got married Tuesday after a hearing.

Ohio law requires parents to sign off on the marriage of anyone younger than 18, but judges can waive the requirement. The bride's mother says she's outraged the judge did so without hearing from her or her husband. She also denies pushing her daughter toward abortion.

The groom's father tells The Dispatch that his daughter-in-law felt that she was in an unsafe environment.

The Franklin County judge involved, Alan Acker, didn't immediately respond to an e-mail sent Saturday.

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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com

A federal judge ordered the military Tuesday to immediately stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops, bringing the 17-year "don't ask, don't tell" policy closer than it has ever been to being abolished.

Justice Department attorneys have 60 days to appeal the injunction but did not say what their next step would be.

President Barack Obama has backed a Democratic effort in Congress to repeal the law, rather than in an executive order or in court.

But U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips' injunction leaves the administration with a choice: Continue defending a law it opposes with an appeal, or do nothing, let the policy be overturned, and add an explosive issue to a midterm election with Republicans poised to make major gains.

Department of Justice and Pentagon officials were reviewing the judge's decision and said they had no immediate comment.

"The whole thing has become a giant game of hot potato," said Diane H. Mazur, a legal expert at the Palm Center, a think tank at the University of California at Santa Barbara that supports a repeal. "There isn't anyone who wants to be responsible, it seems, for actually ending this policy.

"The potato has been passed around so many times that I think the grown-up in the room is going to be the federal courts."

A federal judge in Tacoma, Wash., ruled in a different case last month that a decorated flight nurse discharged from the Air Force for being gay should be given her job back.

Phillips, based in Riverside, Calif., issued a landmark ruling on Sept. 9, declaring the policy unconstitutional and asked both sides to give her input about an injunction. The judge said the policy violates due process rights, freedom of speech and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances guaranteed by the First Amendment.

Gay rights groups hailed Phillips' latest move, crediting her with what the administration and Washington have not been able to do.

"For a single federal judge to tell the government to stop enforcing this policy worldwide, this afternoon, with no time to think about it or plan for it, is almost unprecedented," said Richard Socarides, a former Clinton White House adviser on gay rights.

"This judge was sure. There was nothing in her mind that could justify this even for one more day, one more hour."

Gay rights advocates, however, tempered their celebrations, warning service members to avoid revealing their sexuality for fear that the injunction could be tossed out during an appeal and they would be left open to being discharged.

If the government does not appeal, the injunction cannot be reversed and would remain in effect. If it does, it can seek a temporary freeze, or stay, of her ruling. An appeal would go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Either side could then take it to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Pentagon did not immediately comment, and a Justice Department spokeswoman said the government was reviewing the decision. Meanwhile, a group of 19 Democrat senators signed a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to let the injunction stand.

A "don't ask, don't tell" supporter said Phillips overstepped her bounds.

"The judge ignored the evidence to impose her ill-informed and biased opinion on our military, endangering morale, health and security of our military at a time of war," said Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, a public policy group.

Wright said Phillips should have let Congress continue to investigate the impact of the repeal.

Phillips' order goes into effect immediately, said Dan Woods, the attorney who represented the Log Cabin Republicans, the gay rights group that filed the lawsuit in 2004 to stop the ban's enforcement.

The group says more than 13,500 service members have been fired under the Clinton administration-era policy, which prohibits the military from asking about the sexual orientation of service members but bans those who are openly gay.

Under the 1993 policy, service men and women who acknowledge being gay or are discovered engaging in homosexual activity, including in their own homes off base, are subject to discharge.

Phillips' ruling also ordered the government to suspend and discontinue all pending discharge proceedings and investigations.

Government attorneys had warned Phillips that such an abrupt change from an injunction might harm military operations during wartime. They had asked Phillips to limit her ruling to the 19,000 members of the Log Cabin Republicans, which includes current and former military service members.

The Justice Department attorneys also said Congress should decide the issue — not the court.

Phillips disagreed, saying the policy doesn't help military readiness and instead has a "direct and deleterious effect" on the armed services by hurting recruiting when the country is at war and requiring the discharge of service members with critical skills and training.

"Furthermore, there is no adequate remedy at law to prevent the continued violation of servicemembers' rights or to compensate them for violation of their rights," Phillips said in her order.

Obama opposed "don't ask, don't tell" in the 2008 presidential campaign and pledged to work for its repeal.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a Republican, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, the military's top uniformed officer, have both said they support lifting the ban. But Gates and Mullen also have warned that they would prefer to move slowly.

Gates has ordered a sweeping study due Dec. 1 that includes a survey of troops and their families.

The president agreed to the Pentagon study but also worked with Democrats to write a bill that would have lifted the ban, pending completion of the Defense Department review and certification from the military that troop morale wouldn't suffer.

That legislation passed the House but was blocked in the Senate by Republicans.

Gates has said the purpose of his study isn't to determine whether to change the law — something he says is probably inevitable but up for Congress to decide. Instead, the study is intended to determine how to lift the ban without causing serious disruption during wartime.

If Democrats lose seats in the upcoming elections, repealing the ban could prove even more difficult — if not impossible — next year.

"'Don't ask, don't tell,' as of today at least, is done, and the government is going to have to do something now to resurrect it," Woods said of the Log Cabin Republicans. "Once and for all this failed policy is stopped. Fortunately, now we hope all Americans who wish to serve their country can."

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Associated Press writer Anne Flaherty in Washington contributed to this report.

A Memphis man angered by two teenagers who would not pull up their sagging pants shot one in the rear and faces aggravated assault charges.

"I got 12 months for a falsified police report [because I wouldn't tell who assaulted me on the way to school] and [juvenile counselor Tony "Tyson" Simmons] got probation for raping me and the others [in the courthouse]," said the now 20-year-old Ashley. "It's just ridiculous."

More than 500 people attended a memorial service for a 13-year-old central California boy who hanged himself after enduring taunts from classmates about being gay.

Seth Walsh was remembered Friday night in Tehachapi as a warm-hearted teen who loved to laugh. His mother, Judy Walsh, says the family doesn't want to cast blame and wants the service to be a call for tolerance.

Walsh died Tuesday, nine days after he was found unconscious in his backyard. He had been in a coma.

Walsh's death was one of a string of suicides last month involving teens believed to have been victims of anti-gay bullying. Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi jumped off a bridge to his death after video of him having an intimate encounter with a man was broadcast on the Internet.

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Information from: The Bakersfield Californian, http://www.bakersfield.com

Maybe Someone Should Tell Justin Carl Moose that "All Terrorists Are Muslim"

According to Fox News Affiliate WCCB, Concord, North Carolina resident Justin Carl Moose was arrested for using a social networking website to call for the destruction of a women's clinic in the state,
and for allegedly meeting with an unknown individual to advise him or her about how to make and use explosives to target and destroy a women's clinic that also provides abortion services.

NBC News Affiliate WECT goes into further detail in regards to Moose's use of the social networking site, Facebook. Moose allegedly posted a caption under one of his pictures that says "whatever you may think about me, you're probably right. Extremist, Radical, Fundamentalist...? Yep! Terrorists...? Well.... I prefer the term 'freedom Fighter'. 'End abortion by any means necessary and at any cost'. 'Save a live, Shoot an abortionist' ".

News 14 Concord goes into further detail, noting the following alleged quotes attributed to Moose in the Complaint filed against him:

"There are few problems in life that can't be solved with the proper application of high explosives :)".

Said he was part of the "Army of God".

Moose also called himself the "Christian counterpart of Osama bin Laden".

Proposition 8 foes rally while proponents criticize ruling over lawsuit

Union official: Gunman was employee who had been caught stealing

The White House apologized on Wednesday to a black Agriculture Department employee who was ousted for her remarks about race, acknowledging that officials did not know all the facts when she was fired.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called the dismissal of Shirley Sherrod an injustice and a mistake and said he was apologizing for the "entire administration." He also said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was trying to reach her to extend an apology.

Complaint says Google Maps led her to walk on busy road with no sidewalks

Tensions between the Obama administration and scientists over the gulf oil spill are escalating, with claims the government has failed to conduct an proper scientific analysis.